Astral Realms

Listen. Can you hear it? The thunder of your soul, roaring within the thousand thousand worlds that exist within you. Gods are there, inside you. Worlds of dream and knowledge, chains of purest gold that bind you to each and every other mind that walks this earth. Sink beneath this base flesh and find the noble self within. Read the words written on your soul. Speak the names you find ther...   [click here for more]

Banishers

Suffer Not the Witch Only a few have the vision to see magic for what it is — anathema. Those who wield this unnatural power must be converted or destroyed, lest they unravel the fabric of the world itself. This is the crusade of the few, the zealous — the Banishers. A Character Book for Mage: The Awakening™

• A look at the varied motives a...   [click here for more]

Blasphemies

"Is there some sort of appeal to being ignorant? Do you sleep better without the knowledge of things outside your tiny boundaries? Perhaps it suits you not knowing why you should be afraid. If you die having only known a single beautiful lie, perhaps you'll be happier. Or perhaps that will be the worst regret to haunt you in hell."-- Olivia CitysmithBlasphemies is a s...   [click here for more]

Blood of the Wolf

Heart of the Predator What's it like to have the soul of a beast and the calling of a monster, all concealed within the skin of a person? How do you live among the human herd when your instincts tell you they're prey? What sort of strain does shapeshifting have on your system? What does it mean to have the blood of the wolf? A character book for Werewolf: The Forsaken™

Bloodlines: The Hidden

Foul Ancestry"In the dark corners we dwell, still-born Kindred for whom your clans have no meaning. Our blood is your blood, yet different. It has been willed, strained and afflicted until it has taken a different course in our veins. We are your worst nightmare, childer who defy your designs to forge our own veiled destinies. Placate us, serve us and we might give you a taste of ou...   [click here for more]

Boston Unveiled

That Old Black Magic The first European mages to arrive in New England made dark compacts and concords that still affect the region to this day. From ancient oaths signed in blood to the dying curses of witches, Boston's modern mages are bound by fates not of their own making. The region's history weighs heavily on the shoulders of all... even from beyond the grave. A Sourcebook for M...   [click here for more]

Changeling: The Lost

A Storytelling Game of Beautiful MadnessTaken from your home, transformed by the power of Faerie, kept as the Others’ slave or pet — but you never forgot where you came from. Now you have found your way back through the Thorns, to a home that is no longer yours. You are Lost. Find yourself.The Core Rulebook for Changeling: The Lost™ • A rulebook for playing ...   [click here for more]

City of the Damned: New Orleans

The Sultry Night Beckons New Orleans lives on borrowed time. Steeped in the customs and traditions of the Old World and ruled with an iron fist by a pious Prince, the Kindred of the city keep the sanctity of the Traditions at court and sate their desires amid the neon glare of Bourbon Street. From the stately manors of the Garden District to the seedy lanes of the French Quarter, New Orl...   [click here for more]

Coteries

The Kindred are solitary predators, yet something within compels them to seek out others of their kind. Whether formed as a social faction, a cult of heretics, a consortium of conspirators or as an exercise in safety in numbers, a coterie of Kindred is no strange thing to see after sunset. How, then, do its members reconcile their bestial urges with t...   [click here for more]

Equinox Road

The Path Perilous The road is dangerous, and you may be torn apart by the Thorns. The destination is a risk of death, or the return to slavery. But there’s much to be gained for those brave and clever enough to dare the return — the return to Faerie. A Chronicle Book for Changeling: The Lost™ • Advice on the Changeling endgame, from increased power levels an...   [click here for more]

Fall of the Camarilla

We have been lying for decades. The terrible truth is that the Gods have fallen silent. Only thieves and liars speak for them now. The prophecies you hear are nothing but a desperate attempt to rally our forces. How can they succeed? You see that chaos rules Necropolis now. You know the Camarilla is doomed. --Kemnebi, Vaticinator of the Cult of the Augurs This book includes: * A...   [click here for more]

Forsaken Chronicler's Guide

You come with me, you're on a journey. You leave this safe and boring world and strap into a wild ride. You won't know where you're going. That's okay-because I don't know where I'm taking you. All I know is that life is short, but my teeth and my claws are long. The night awaits us, and I am hungry. Aren't you hungry, too?- Anna Koren, ...   [click here for more]

Ghouls

Thralls of the Damned

Slaves to the addictive taste of vampiric Vitae, ghouls trade servitude for that heady substance. Servitude, however, damns them far more than they know, as their unnatural craving drives them to ever greater desperation and depravity. Among those known as blood slaves, there's no such thing as "just one fix."

Bound to the Night

Goblin Markets

Every freehold knows of at least one. Some seem to have grown up almost overnight, like a ring of small white mushrooms. Others seem to have run for millennia, outliving the rise and fall of the freeholds that surround them. They’ll never go away entirely, despite the dangers of their wares. Someone always needs something you can only get at a Goblin Market....   [click here for more]

Guardians of the Veil

"Who are we? Don't ask for secrets if you cannot keep them. Do you wish to take this step? Good. We are the secret police of the Awakened, charged with our task by the kings of lost Atlantis. We watch and judge the Gifted for any sign of malpractice of their Art, for we knew of old that the Abyssal taint of miscast spells risks the very universe. To remain pure, magic must be kept secr...   [click here for more]

Hunter Horror Recognition Guide

Strange Encounters The Vigil brings no easy explanations — every night is a new mystery, a bizarre creature, an unknown terror. But hunters are humans, and humans must categorize — they take notes, keep journals, snap pictures and attempt to illustrate the horrors they meet on the hunt. By doing so, hunter cells try to find patterns, solve enigmas, and most important of all, ...   [click here for more]

Hunting Ground: The Rockies

Homeland of the Wolves It's a place of refuge, a territory where the Tribes of the Moon hold strong. Wolves run on four feet through mountain forests, and on two through urban landscapes. But even this place of refuge has its own dangers, horrors revealed only by the light of the full moon. Werewolves are not the most dangerous things that breathe the night air. Mountains by Moonlight...   [click here for more]

Invite Only

Why should it be any different when many vampires get together? It isn't. In fact, it's exponentially worse. Kindred are designed to be solitary predators.

Why they gather in such large groups is a complicated issue. Are they lonely? Do they need to keep enemies within arms' reach? Do they need to understand the other creatures that&n...   [click here for more]

Kiss of the Succubus: Daeva

Death has never looked so good Love them or hate them, the Daeva are the ones you die for. Tempters and priests, madonnas and horrors, these vampires feed on the blood and vices of the World of Darkness — and feed well. From the best parties to the worst parts of town, be seduced by the beautiful among the Damned. For the Succubi, a good-looking corpse is only the first step in the...   [click here for more]

Lancea Sanctum

Je suis le monstre sacré de Dieu, le buveur d’humanité.Pendant longtemps,Je n’ai pu voir le rôle qu’il me fallait jouer,parce que je le cherchaisavec des yeux humains, des yeux de mortel.Aussi ai-je chouché la vérite sur ces pages,pour vous qui cherchey comme moi aussi j’ai cherché.Je ne suis pas quelque fauve impiequi rôde ...   [click here for more]

Legacies: The Sublime

"Time is a cycle.Beginning.Middle.End.All part of the cycle.Genesis mandates conclusion;a start necessitates a closure.The tims is nigh for the conclusion.This is the end." -- Durandal, prophet of the Cult of the Doomsday Clock Mages aspire to greatness, and none more so than those who craft their souls with the techniques of the sublime—legacies that invoke awe and te...   [click here for more]

Lodges: The Faithful

"You have lain in the earth. You have walked in the Shadow. You have ascended your own funeral pyre. You have looked upon the face of the Death that awaits you, and you have returned to life carrying that knowledge with you. Come and take your rightful place among us, and know fear no longer." … from the rites of initiation of the Lodge of DeathBrotherhood of WolvesChann...   [click here for more]

Lore of the Forsaken

"We lie when we call them Gifts. A gift is something given freely, an act of love or friendship. We tell each other, and ourselves, that the power we pull from the Shadow was meant to be ours, that each time a spirit deigns to grant us a portion of its power then we're one step closer to salvation. It's funny. You wouldn't think we were such good liars."Brokedown Val...   [click here for more]

Mage: The Awakening

ENnie Nominee Best Writing

The Power to Remake the WorldIn an age long gone, mortals dethroned the gods and seized the heavens for their own. And for it, they were flung down into the world of clay, their minds clouded by ignorance. Only a bare few remember their birthright - the power of magic. If they cannot claim the heavens, they will make their own...   [click here for more]

Magnum Opus

The Great WorkLead into gold. Worthless into priceless. False fire into a mortal soul. This is the quest of every Promethean, but many roads lead to Mortality. Over the centuries, the Refinements have changed, new ones have been discovered and old ones lost, and secrets too terrible for the mundane world have been buried and covered in lies. The Created cannot afford to let the...   [click here for more]